Thursday, June 15, 2017

Put them all in prison

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette filed charges of involuntary
manslaughter Wednesday against the state’s top health officer over an
outbreak of deadly Legionnaires’ disease during the Flint water crisis.

Nick Lyon, the director of Michigan’s Department of Health and Human
Services, is being charged in relation to the death of Flint resident
Robert Skidmore, aged 85, on December 13, 2015. Lyon is accused of
failing to alert the public to an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in
the city. Documents show Lyon was aware of the outbreak as early as
January 2015. He is the highest-ranking state official charged to date.

With this indictment, the investigation touches for the first time
the inner circle of the administration of Michigan Republican Governor
Rick Snyder. On Wednesday, Schuette said Snyder is not being charged
with any crimes related to the Flint’s lead-contaminated water but left
the door open to the possibility, according to the Detroit News.

Four other public officials, who had previously been charged with
lesser crimes, also face involuntary manslaughter charges over the death
of Skidmore. They include former Flint Emergency Manager Darnell
Earley; Liane Shekter-Smith, the former Michigan Department of
Environmental Quality (DEQ) official in charge of drinking water;
Stephen Busch, another DEQ official; along with Howard Croft, who headed
the City of Flint Water Department.

They should all go to prison. And maybe if they did, it would put some well deserved fear into our so-called public servants.

They have been under the impression that they don't wok for the voters.

Immigration officials today strongly defended their arrests of Iraqi immigrants over the weekend, saying the U.S. detained 114 people in metro Detroit with criminal pasts who posed security threats. Today's statement from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was the first time officials said how many were detained in sweeping raids of Iraqi nationals targeted for deportation. Many of the detained immigrants are Christians who say they fear that deportation to Iraq would jeopardize their lives since they are a minority there and under siege. But ICE said today the detainees have criminal pasts and already faced final removal orders from a judge. "The operation in this region was specifically conducted to address the very real public safety threat represented by the criminal aliens arrested," Rebecca Adducci, field office director for ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Detroit, said in a statement. "The vast majority of those arrested in the Detroit metropolitan area have very serious felony convictions, multiple felony convictions in many cases. I applaud the efforts of the law enforcement personnel who, day in and day out, put their lives on the line to protect this community."

See the problem?

Donald Trump also promised to enforce immigration laws.

If you're building your coverage on one promise only and not noting the other, you're discrediting yourself at a time when journalism is already discredited.

That's not advocating for the immigrants to be removed from the country, that's saying you need to tell the truth. And you also need to investigate ICE's claims because they're saying something doesn't make it so.